Planning & Urban Development
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From  Political Highs and LowsFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter looks at politics, evolutions in the energy industry, and Hydro-Quebec’s future. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! PrefaceFrom: The Spirit of Africville |
This chapter is a preface by Irvine Carvey, a descendant of Africville. He discusses the importance of remembering Africville and its residents, and their contributions to African Nova Scotian culture. | Irvine Carvey | 2 | 2026 | $0.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Preface |
An introduction to the structure and purpose of the book and author acknowledgements. | Joseph Lyons; Zachary Spicer | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Ideology over Economics |
In this section the author outlines his background as well as providing a list of terms and initialisms that will be used throughout the rest of the text. | John Loxley | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! Pretty DismalFrom: Seven Days in Halifax |
In this chapter, Ashe describes the events of Day Five of Halifax’s 1970 “Encounter on Urban Environment,” on tourism and health policy. Both were found to be seriously deficient. | Robert Ashe | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Privatized Policymaking on Toronto’s WaterfrontFrom: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 4 explores how smart cities projects allow private companies to shape municipal policies to suit their own interests as opposed to the interests of the population. | Natasha Tusikov | 15 | 2020 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! (Pseudo-) Participation in Smart City PlanningSidewalk Labs’ Fraught Toronto Foray From: Smart Cities in Canada: Digital Dreams, Corporate Designs |
Chapter 2 explores the factors that must be present for a smart cities project to be responsible and effective and then asses whether the Sidewalk Labs project in Toronto met any of these criteria. | Andrew Clement | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Public Health in the Post-Covid EraFrom: Messy Cities |
Dr. Andrew Boozary writes about how the pandemic illustrated that public health and equity in Canada do not meet the standards many Canadians expect. | Dylan Reid | 4 | 2025 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Race to the bottomInequality and poverty |
The fourth chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? considers the equity and poverty aspects of public transit versus the automobile, asserting that communities that are serious about … | James Wilt | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Racing Your BicycleChapter 7 |
In Racing Your Bicycle Waters examines competitive cycling in Canada and how its body of regulations straddles both private and public law. While the regulations adopted by private cycling … | Christopher Waters | 46 | 2022 | $4.60 Add |
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From NEW! Rasta Cape TownFrom: Messy Cities |
Kofi Hope reflects on their experience living in Cape Town, South Africa, and how the Rastafarians they met there were messy urbanists: community builders, peacemakers, entrepreneurs, … | Dylan Reid | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From Redacted to NothingThe Public-Private Partnerships Transparency and Accountability Act, Manitoba From: Ideology over Economics |
Postscript 2019 | John Loxley | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Remembering WinterFrom: Living Disability |
Emily Macrae writes about the difficulties she has as someone who limps getting around in the snow, as well as her twin brother’s experience in a wheelchair in the winter. She discusses different … | Emily Macrae | 9 | 2024 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Research Methods and DesignFrom: Resisting Eviction |
In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, … | Andrew Crosby | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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NEW! Resisting EvictionDomicide and the Financialization of Rental Housing |
Resisting Eviction centres tenant organizing in its investigation of gentrification, eviction and the financialization of rental housing. Andrew Crosby argues that racial discrimination, property … | 188 | View | ||
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From  Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four CitiesFrom: Dry Run |
In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
